Operating in the rural Twente region alongside his wife and son, Annink built a years-long pattern of robbery and suspected murder that went largely unchecked until an outsider — a Hanoverian merchant pursuing a missing relative — finally brought enough evidence to force an arrest. The family's crimes were localized but sustained, and the case left an unusual material trace: the restraining chair constructed specifically to hold him during his 114-day detention survives in a museum today, a reminder of how seriously authorities ultimately took the threat he posed.

Hungary's regent for nearly a quarter century, Horthy presided over a state that institutionalized antisemitism throughout the interwar years and aligned with Nazi Germany during World War II, a partnership that ultimately facilitated the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz in 1944. His authority rested on a carefully maintained conservatism that suppressed political extremes while tolerating and codifying discrimination at the state level. The regime he built made Hungary a willing participant in some of the war's most concentrated mass murder, even as Horthy himself later sought to negotiate a separate peace.